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Don, I hope this helps. Maybe it is a semantics difference? Being labeled with PD/PD+ for example, is yuck! However, I seem to hear that a person doesn't die form the disease itself but from he complications of the disease/illness. Yeah I know what XX. I understand. nancy:) Don Diswinka wrote: > > HI, > > > A special report from Harvard Medical School, PARKINSON'S DISEASE - A NEW > > HOPE, by John E. Growdon, M.D., Director, Memory and Movement Disorders > > Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Neurology, Harvard > > Medical School. > > Excerpt from flyer I received: > > > "Parkinson's is not fatal, but it leads to a variety of functional > > disabilities. > > This is not directed at the person who sent this but, perhaps Dr. John E. > Growdon might explain more carefully--If Parkinson's is not fatal why so > many people actually die from it???? > > Just curious. > > Don 51/3 pd+